COPS BURN E2.5M WORTH OF DAGGA

PIGG’S PEAK – Dagga with a street value of E2 486 047.80 has been destroyed by the Royal Swaziland Police in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs.

Most of the dagga was destined for outside markets, including South Africa (SA), where buyers paid several times more than the local street value.
The dagga was collected from all the four regions of the country with Lubombo having collected the least quantity of 499.944 kilogrammes.
Hhohho region, which had 2 066.832 kilogrammes was the highest.

The dagga was collected mainly from people who had been arrested and sentenced for the offences.
Some of the dagga, however, was has not been destroyed as matters are still pending at the various courts in the country.

Also present during the destruction of the illicit herb was Pigg’s Peak Senior Magistrate Siphosini Dlamini.
Dlamini said from his observation, pupils were now participating in growing dagga, claiming to raise funds for their school fees.
He said eventually the same pupils ended up smoking it.

Dlamini said dagga had negative effects as most people who smoked it ended up in psychiatric centres or streets.
“We, the tax payers, then end up paying for them to be accommodated at the psychiatric centre,” said Dlamini.
He also said major drug dealers used dagga to recruit young people into hard core drugs such as cocaine, ecstasy or mandrax.

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